Once an obscure yuletide character from European folklore, the Krampus has been enjoying a new bout of international popularity in recent years, with more and more indie filmmakers looking to Santa Claus’ demonic foil for inspiration. Amongst the spate of incoming Krampus films (including Kevin Smith’s ANTI-CLAUS) is Legendary Pictures’ horror-comedy KRAMPUS, helmed by none […]

Ever since Mary Shelley’s classic tale of terror, FRANKENSTEIN, entered the public domain, more than a few takes on the monster have been popping up across the pop culture landscape. With a big-budget horror adventure feature, the second season of PENNY DREADFUL and a UK series on the way, some forget that Fox is also […]

It’s been over 40 years since Gunnar Hansen wore the stitched-face disguise that terrorize his victims and audiences in THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Now he’s putting it back on for the first time for photo ops at this month’s Mad Monster Party convention—and he’s not alone.

As any fright fan knows, the horror genre has a particularly salacious relationship with sexually explicit content. And while nudity so often goes side by side with decapitated heads and brutal bloodletting, there are also horror filmmakers throughout the years who made an art form out of the human body with an appreciation of our […]

Welcome to Shadowvision, a regular column in which Fangoria.com revisits modern horror films in black-and-white. The purpose is to analyze these films through a new lens, seeing if the classically informed viewing experience will give a new angle to familiar images. If you’d like to watch along at home, it’s simple: go into your TV […]

For fans of backwoods horror and monstrous slashers, there’s few names that can bring the pain as good as FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise stand-out Kane Hodder. And luckily, Hodder’s back in a big way in Steve Wolsh’s fright flick MUCK, which Anchor Bay is releasing in a matter of days. But today, you can be […]

FANGORIA’s favorite Canadian based screening series, Fright Night Theatre in the sinister Hamilton, Ontario (birth and death place of DARK SHADOWS legend Jonathan Frid!), presents a premiere-studded night of horrific and hilarious international horror short films this Saturday night at The Elaine Mae Theatre. Fright Theatre’s ongoing program offers a freaky and fun spotlight on […]

The alien-abduction thriller EJECTA just hit select theaters and VOD from IFC Films, and for an eerie taste of its conspiracy-minded mood, check out the main-title sequence you can see exclusively after the jump.

If it has not yet been apparent, Gerard Johnstone’s HOUSEBOUND was one of last year’s horror highlights, making 3 out of 4 FANGORIA Best of 2014 lists and earning 3 Chainsaw Award nominations. Now, with the Chainsaw voting winding down, the good folks at XLrator Media have offered more incentive for FANGORIA readers to put HOUSEBOUND […]

Some poltergeists got into the works at the New York-area Alamo Drafthouse Cinema this past Friday night and scuttled the FANGORIA-hosted screening of the Tobe Hooper-Steven Spielberg classic, so it has been rescheduled for later this week.

Author Max Brooks can’t keep his hands off dead things. After crafting the best-selling books THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE and WORLD WAR Z (the blockbuster movie version of the latter now on disc), Brooks once again turns to the living dead with THE EXTINCTION PARADE, a 12-part comic-book series from Avatar Press. But there’s a […]

With voting season now open on the FANGORIA Chainsaw Awards, fans are putting their minds at work to select their favorites out of every potential nominee. However, judging by our FANGORIA Facebook feedback, there weren’t many fans of the 2014 studio releases this year, especially compared to the stellar roster in 2013. And considering that […]